Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye , thirteen , were n't it that bugger . |
| 2 | Were n't it good ! |
| 3 | Were n't it good ? |
| 4 | Were n't it good ? |
| 5 | Yeah , well were n't it daft , I thought that was clever |
| 6 | So she said were n't it marvellous . |
| 7 | Well she told me that he in six months , yeah it was planned were n't it six months |
| 8 | Oh yeah were n't it windy ? |
| 9 | Was n't it strange how history seemed to repeat itself ? |
| 10 | Was n't it possible that in years to come she and Susan , doomed to loneliness themselves , might feel very glad that they had done their best to make someone else less lonely ? |
| 11 | Veronica had been to the flat : was n't it possible she might have left something behind which Loretta could claim to have found ? |
| 12 | Was n't it possible that a man of Jamie 's age might be more able to cope with her feminism , her academic success ? |
| 13 | Was n't it possible that his sexuality was much more ambivalent than he had let on ? |
| 14 | Do you remember Rhubarb on the telly was n't it good that it like came on after Magic Roundabout finished did n't it ? |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , and was n't it nice that little Ellie was here just in time to help clarify things ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , when was n't it repulsive ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Was n't it hideous ? ’ |
| 18 | Was n't it five bob ? |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't mean lucky that your mother and father died , but if they had to was n't it great you did n't go somewhere awful ? ’ |
| 20 | WITH all the talk of recession was n't it great to read that at least one important institution has been given a reprieve . |
| 21 | They thought that Goibniu was looking happy ( although it was always difficult to tell with giants ) and thought , was n't it a fine old thing to see how well the designs were being received and was n't it great , altogether , to see how well received the Oakapple 's sketches were , because had n't he been the guiding light behind most of the work ? |
| 22 | Was n't it awful ? |
| 23 | ‘ Was n't it odd for a chef and steward to be in the engine-room ? ’ |
| 24 | cos you know that black stuff well , well that was four pounds was n't it that length ? |
| 25 | ‘ But was n't it ironic that he wuz the one who eventually blew everythin' wide open , an ’ led you to the chink 's drugs operation ? ’ |
| 26 | For was n't it better to have peace — even at such a price — than chaos ? |
| 27 | Was n't it Saudi ? . |
| 28 | Wham , bam , ba , loo-la was n't it first ? , or or something , |
| 29 | Was n't it one of the simplest magics there was and his grandfather , to say nothing of his great-grandfather ( who had lived long and fared well ) passing it down to him . |
| 30 | ‘ Was n't it lovely ? |